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ABSTRACT
The research described in this paper is part of a PhD study that aims to bring to light women’s experiences of being a woman in 21st Century New Zealand. This paper will discuss the importance of storytelling in feminist research and outline its implementation in this study to understand the unique differences and lived experiences of the women who participated. I use standpoint theory and intersectionality to reclaim a discourse of difference and challenge the classification of women as a homogenous group. Diary methods were implemented to capture individual differences in lived experience. The use of women’s experiences is positioned in this study as the ‘starting off thought’ for understanding women’s identification with feminism and their simultaneous experiences of privilege and oppression.
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Roxanna Elizabeth Holdsworth
Roxanna Elizabeth Holdsworth is a PhD candidate in the School of Marketing and Management at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. Roxanna’s teaching and research interests are in leadership communication and communication theory and practice, with particular emphasis on inclusion. Her PhD research focuses on women’s experience of being a woman in 21st Century New Zealand, given the existence of a plateau in measures to progress equality and a resurgence in social movements aimed to enact social change, in relation to women’s issues. Roxanna has served in a number of teaching positions at the Waikato Management School, including sessional assistant, teaching assistant, and teaching fellow.